metadata/glsa/glsa-200501-36.xml

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<glsa id="200501-36">
  <title>AWStats: Remote code execution</title>
  <synopsis>
    AWStats fails to validate certain input, which could lead to the remote
    execution of arbitrary code or to the leak of information.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">awstats</product>
  <announced>January 25, 2005</announced>
  <revised>May 28, 2009: 04</revised>
  <bug>77963</bug>
  <bug>81775</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="www-misc/awstats" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">6.3-r2</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">6.3-r2</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    AWStats is an advanced log file analyzer and statistics generator.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    When 'awstats.pl' is run as a CGI script, it fails to validate specific
    inputs which are used in a Perl open() function call. Furthermore, a
    user could read log file content even when plugin rawlog was not
    enabled.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="high">
    <p>
    A remote attacker could supply AWStats malicious input, potentially
    allowing the execution of arbitrary code with the rights of the web
    server. He could also access raw log contents.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    Making sure that AWStats does not run as a CGI script will avoid the
    issue, but we recommend that users upgrade to the latest version, which
    fixes these bugs.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All AWStats users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=www-misc/awstats-6.3-r2&quot;</code>
    <p>
    Note: Users with the vhosts USE flag set should manually use
    webapp-config to finalize the update.
    </p>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://awstats.sourceforge.net/docs/awstats_changelog.txt">AWStats ChangeLog</uri>
    <uri link="http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=185">iDEFENSE Advisory</uri>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-0116">CAN-2005-0116</uri>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-0362">CAN-2005-0362</uri>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-0363">CAN-2005-0363</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Tue, 18 Jan 2005 13:51:20 +0000">
    koon
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Sat, 22 Jan 2005 01:15:21 +0000">
    lewk
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Tue, 25 Jan 2005 18:48:59 +0000">
    jaervosz
  </metadata>
</glsa>